Winter in Mexico City

The week between Christmas and New Year's provides visitors to Mexico City with a different kind of city—many CDMX residents take advantage of the holidays to travel to beaches or abroad. The streets, notoriously clogged with traffic, are navigable and restaurants, markets, and museums are still open for business.

Housed in a 1964 structure whose modern lines and central fountain greatly complement what's on view, this anthropology museum is a repository of the most important pre-Hispanic treasures modern Mexico has discovered. The works are...

The concierge at the hotel was skeptical. The cab driver was amused and skeptical. Lucha libre, or Mexican wrestling, is clearly an unsophisticated embarrassment, tantamount to telling a visitor to the U.S. to...

Paseo de la Reforma–or just "Reforma" to locals–is Mexico City's principal avenue, and its generous width means there's ample space to maintain large-scale public artworks. Among the best-known artists who have sculptures along Reforma...

The discreet roll-up garage door near Glorieta de Insurgentes opens to reveal a lovely beer garden at the edge of Colonia Roma. By the entrance, a stall serves bar food and there's a full bar along the garden's back wall....

Fabrica Social is located inside the Downtown complex, where hotelier Grupo Hábita has a property that includes accommodations, restaurants, and a number of boutiques. This is a shop where you can buy handmade goods ranging from clothing...

Much of Mexico City’s fervid contemporary art movement—galleries and collectors abound; the scene is now a launching pad for Mexican artists looking to conquer the world—can be traced to art patron Eugenio López Alonso,...

While it's not in Mexico City proper, the sacred pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan is close enough–about 30 miles– for an easy day trip if you're interested in architecture, archaeology, and indigenous history. The site's primary...

With the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, Iberian overlords set about imposing their customs on the subdued populace, eliminating traces of pre-Hispanic religions they deemed heretical by demolishing major temples and building churches and...

Near the lovely Plaza de Santo Domingo, on a street torn up by post-earthquake construction, you step over the door jamb of an old colonial building into a small modern hotel lobby, lit by a skylight six floors up. The bright terrace restaurant,...

Ultra-modern Hotel Habita sits on upscale avenue Presidente Masaryk, in the midst of the Polanco's fine restaurants and shops. Opened in 2000 and renovated in 2012, the hotel, which looks like a glass cube, continues to attract travelers who...